Leonardo Pereira Troeira — 2020

There has been a significant growth in the internet and web applications in the last years, which consequently has increased the need for web services and distributed applications to provide specific value to other complex applications. This research proposes the design and development of the qNoti…

Maria De Oliveira Loureiro — 2020

Southern European countries, such as Portugal, can successfully use solar power to meet their climate targets given their favorable exposure to insolation. Assuming the year 2050 and Portugal, this thesis uses a green-field investment model to outline which uncertainties are associated with solar b…

João Pedro Estácio Gaspar Gonçalves de Araújo — 2020

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area within machine learning that studies how agents can learn to perform their tasks without being explicitly told how to do so. An important concept in RL is sample efficiency: an algorithm is sample-efficient if it requires a low amount of samples to learn its t…

Valdemiro Filipe Ribeiro Fernandes — 2020

In recent years, there has been great progress in the public transportation sector with regards to innovative alternatives, providing great advantages to several traditional public transport systems. Within these alternatives, more focus has been placed on transport systems that have an unconvention…

João Pedro Pascoal Martins Sanchez Gonzalez — 2020

Energy is one of the most important resources for the growth and development of a country in the modern society, and reliable energy forecasting is essential for the effective management of this resource. In this thesis, an artificial neural network technique was applied to the long term forecasting…

Hugo Quitério Ferreira — 2020

The aim of this work was to assess control strategies of the electric motor (EM) and internal combustion engine (ICE) in the operation of a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV). For that purpose, two plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), “A” and “B”, were monitored during two trips and their dynamic da…

Sebastião Cascata Gago da Graça — 2020

The automotive industry might be seen as a living organism which is constantly affected by internal and external factors. In a highly competitive business environment, the quest for not missing the 4.0 industry boat is enormous. Therefore, the Portuguese automotive plant, Autoeuropa, from Volkswagen…

Marco Semeraro — 2020

Modelling of a device is essential to analyse, optimize and predict its performance with respect to the physics at the basis of its functioning. In a world struggling with energy-related issues, effective modelling of Photovoltaic (PV) systems can be a key factor for today’s society betterment and p…

Physical Review Letters

U. Wahl, J. G. Correia, + 5 authors, L. M. C. Pereira — 2020

Oliveira, Mariana, Marques, Inês — 2020 — Springer